This sounds suspicious, and with your rep after that April Fool's Modability prank of yours... I am awfully wary of anything that has the letters E , o, and J connected to it.

Still, this is an attempt at amends.

And a damned fine deal.

Can anyone out there beat this one?

and how much commission can HG get for being an affiliate marketer for whichever one wins?

... Terikel, get on it. We used to have sponsored links once upon a time...

The price on Steam is absolutely ridiculous - £44.99!

What can Zavvi do for Americans?

Is the Zavvi one a physical copy?

Yeah, it is.

Thanks, 30GB is a lot to download!

30GB? I'm not sure whether steam's price or that suprises me more.

Worth noting zavvi has gone up to 30 quid again. I shall look some more for cheap deals later.

I just looked at the Requirements. £45 is a bit much in my opinion and 30GB would take at least 10 hours to download with my connection.

30GB would take at least 10 hours to download with my connection

Do what I do when I buy/download games off steam - overnight when I'm in bed

30gb is a huge amount to download, and would take longer than overnight for me.

Buying a physical copy not only saves you money but also spares you most of that huge download, too.

Overnight is a plan but I just like having shiny physical copies

Overnight is a plan but I just like having shiny physical copies

Oh I agree; I will purchase a physical copy if I am able.

Physical copy all the way! 30 GIG is MASSIVE. I got upset at 9 gigs worth of updates for Shogun 2. My internet is terrible. At home i am on 8 gigs a month, but i can take it to my dads work as he has like 200Gig a month and it is very fast, at least for my standard.

Apparently there is a deal for the pre-order on steam. Look here for details

About time it was reduced, silly price considering how much it will cost you elsewhere. Good spot Warlord.

I've got unlimited download, but my actual speed is low/average, so I have no actual problems beyond it being a long download.

That being said, I preordered it from Amazon for £30, but I've paid another £3 for it to be delivered on the day it comes out so I don't miss in the collective christmas-come-early excitement on this forum

Lucky Brits. Still $60 here in the US

To the chap who came in and said that it's on sale on steam in the other thread, thankee

I just saw the system reqs for Rome II. Vista/Windows 7 and 8. I guess I won't be getting it for a long time

Interesting - XP isn't in the OS list, but...

Quoted from requirements:

Memory:1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows 7 or 8) GB RAM

Total war has the commendable goal to keep minimum specs about the same throughout their great series.

Luckily for me:
- Rtw plays fine
- Medieval have to turn some setting to low, but in general works fine, bit long loading times.
- Shogun 2, had to turn everything down, but I can play it. Biggest issue very long load times.

Due to the popularity of xp, it is strange it would not work. Perhaps it will still work, maybe they just mean it requires windows (mac version follow later I think) and they dont want to list all windows versions

It might not have been cheap, but I got the steam pre-purchase with greek states pack :P. The 3rd of september I will be playing rome 2

Thought you guys might be interested in this. Especially our American forumers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c

Here's where I pre-ordered from:

http://www.flipkart.com/total-war-rome-ii/p/itmdm7f4jnncgjh4?pid=AVMDKYSCYJTZET2F

So, it's there for 25$, but when I ordered it, it was for 16$. Too bad it doesn't ship overseas.

A shame indeed. Good job picking it up so cheaply though.

Might pre-order mine at a local store, don't want to risk a delivery delay, especially cause I will book off release day to play it. I remember when Empire came out and Gaius had to wait an extra two days to receive his copy from Play.com

I ordered it at a local store for 54,95 euros. Might be expensive, but I'm willing to give up that much.

I ordered it at a local store for 54,95 euros. Might be expensive, but I'm willing to give up that much.

Christ, I hope that was the special deluxe printed toilet paper edition!

Cheapest site I can find for state-side players:

http://www.getgamesgo.com/product/total-war-rome-2-po

For Australians, though Green Man Gaming can apply to everyone with the right deal/coupons, I recommend seeing what prices OzGameShop or GMG have going at the time. I managed to acquire both my Rome II pre-order and Civ V: Brave New World pre-order for 50 AUD (grand total) a couple of months earlier at GMG.

I'm interested in knowing if any Americans have purchased a game from ozgameshop; they have a great price at $43 right now, and I'm very tempted. It is the hard copy (DVD rom, which is what I want), however shipping from Aussieland has me concerned a bit...

Technically they ship from Ireland or UK, if I remember correctly. How else do you think we get such insane discounts on games compared to what they retail for in Australia locally .

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Just pre-ordered a physical copy via Ozgames, Scip; hopefully they don't fail me!

Well I got Ripped. I pre-ordered Rome 2 at my Local EBgames store. $90 later..

Although I think I get the book with it- which I hope so if it cost me that much!